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The quality of the text rendering could really be improved by using subpixel render https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subpixel_rendering https://en.wikipedia.org/wi

The quality of the text rendering could really be improved by using subpixel render https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subpixel_rendering https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subpixel_rendering. Most desktop apps do this. Your browser does it. Your terminal probably does it. VSCode does it. Even the canvas tag in browsers supports this. Basically, every place you're likely to read code is going to look better than the images generated with this.

adamzochowski 8y ago
Subpixel rendering requires knowing the pixel orientation (are sub pixels left to right or top to bottom) and the order they are in (rgb vs bgr) and finally assume that the display screen is in real full color mode, and not some limit color space like YUV420.
- tofof 8y ago
  Which is why it's insane that Windows 8.1 broke the cleartype tuner and it's still broken in 10 to this day. See Noel's comment (at the bottom) of https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/768bd013-cff9-4a80-a3f9-5ca04340871e https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/768bd013-c...
  - village-idiot 8y ago
    Didn’t they invent sub pixels?
  - pjc50 8y ago
    Yes, there's something horribly persistently wrong there; all Metro apps render conspicuously ugly fonts for me now.